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Period 4: 1800-1848 Flashcards

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Revolution of 1800

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Peaceful transition of power to Democratic Republicans

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Jefferson First Actions

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cut military, federal jobs, tariffs, and the national debt

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Events during Thomas Jefferson Presidency

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  1. Louisiana Purchase
  2. Marbury Vs. Madison
    3.Barbary Pirates
  3. Chesapeake Leopard Affair
  4. Embargo Act
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Louisiana Purchase

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Jefferson bought a massive territory from the French for very cheap, but it is unclear if it was constitutional

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Marbury Vs. Madison

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Adams nominated people as judges right before he lost power but they did not become judges because the judiciary act was ruled unconstitutional

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Barbary Pirates

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Barbary pirates requested a tax to protect US ships, Jefferson said no, they attacked, Jefferson paid lesser tax

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Chesapeake Leopard Affair

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A British ship fired on an American ship and killed and impressed the sailors

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Embargo Act

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Stopped US ships from going to foreign ports

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Issues during James Madison’s Presidency

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  1. Nonintercourse Act of 1809
  2. Macon’s Bill No 2
  3. Battle of Tippecanoe
  4. War of 1812
  5. Treaty of Ghent
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Nonintercourse Act of 1809

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Stopped the US from trading with Britain and France

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Macon’s Bill No 2

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If either Britain or France recognized US neutral rights the US would trade with them

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Battle of Tippecanoe

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Indian effort to prevent US from taking land, Britain provided some aid which made the US mad

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War of 1812

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War between the US and Britain about neutral rights, impressment, and western land

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Treaty of Ghent

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Ended the war of 1812 and basically returned things to normal

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Events during James Monroe’s presidency

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  1. Rush-Bagot Agreement
  2. Treaty of 1818
  3. Florida Purchase Treaty
  4. Monroe Doctrine
  5. Missouri Compromise
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Rush-Bagot Agreement

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limited how much military control US and Britain could have at Canada border

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Treaty of 1818

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Improved relations between US and Britain by sharing land

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Florida Purchase Treaty

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US purchased Florida from Spain

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Monroe Doctrine

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Stated that what happens in each hemisphere stays in each hemisphere > US in charge

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Missouri Compromise

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Added Missouri as a slave state, Maine as free, established line at 36 30

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Henry Clay Ideas

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  1. Missouri Compromise
  2. American System
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American System

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  1. High tariff
  2. Internal improvements
  3. 2nd Bank of US
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Transportation Improvements

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Canals, some roads, railways, steam engines, steamboats

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Manufacturing Improvements

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Cotton gin, interchangeable parts, factory system

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Lowell Factory Girls

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Girls worked in factories under Lowell System for bad pay and bad conditions

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Cult of Domesticity

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There were two separate spheres: men in public, women in private

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People wanted _______ to be able to vote

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All white males

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Issues during Andrew Jackson’s presidency

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  1. Peggy Eaton affair
  2. Indian Removal Act
  3. Worcester vs Georgia
  4. Nullification Crisis
  5. Second bank veto/ pet banks
  6. Specie Circular
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Peggy Eaton Affair

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Scandal involving Peggy Eaton potentially cheating that divided Jackson’s cabinet

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Indian Removal Act

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Required Indians to be moved to allow westward expansion

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Worcester Vs Georgia

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Laws of Georgia did not apply to Cherokee nation

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Nullification Crisis

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South Carolina nullified tariffs of Abominations and Jackson responded that it was treason and persuaded congress to pass the force act

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Second Bank of the US/Pet banks

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Vetoed recharter of US bank and distributed the money into state banks

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Specie Circular

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Required land be bought by gold and silver and caused inflation

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Issue during Martin Van Buren’s Presidency

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Panic of 1837 caused by Andrew Jackson’s financial decisions

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Log cabin and Hard cider campaign

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William Henry Harrison won election because of his frontier man campaign, then died. John Tyler became president

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Transcendentalists

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau

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Second great Awakening

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Religious fervor that spread because of extended democracy > very emotional and made people think they could save themselves

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Temperance Movement

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People drank too much and limited alcohol intake

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Public Asylums

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Prisons were not the best way for reform and mental hospitals were created

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Education improvements

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Horace Mann argued that schools needed to be improved

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Seneca Falls Convention

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Led by Lizzie Stanton and Lucretia Mott and called for women’s rights

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William Lloyd Garrison

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The Liberator, called for abolishment of slavery

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Nat Turner’s Rebellion

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Led slaves to kill white people in revolt

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Abolitionists

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Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth

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